Here Comes the Corpse; Tim Burton's Latest Offers Pure Necrophiliac Confectionary; Corpse Bride

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Corpse Bride continues the now-established tradition of having animated characters blatantly resemble their voice actors; though Victor looks more like Hugh Grant as Chopin in Impromptu, with floppy hair and pale Byronic brow. It?s possible to completely forget that these aren?t live-action performances. [Emily Watson], the Corpse Bride herself, disarmingly attractive in a cadaverous sort of way, is a lot more lively than many overpaid actresses which come to mind. We?d probably be rooting for her more strenuously if Victoria didn?t suddenly reveal a startling level of spunk herself. Except for her, everything in the parallel above-ground world is rather grisly, grey and sexually repressed, whereas down below it?s all surrealist and Luis Buñuel, Dia de los Muertos,"Guernica" and somehow oddly Caribbean."Why would you want to go up there when people are dying to get down here?" one deceased gentleman asks Victor plaintively; and you take his point.

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Here Comes the Corpse; Tim Burton's Latest Offers Pure Necrophiliac Confectionary; Corpse Bride

Corpse Bride?s story feels eerily familiar, as though it?s an adaptation of an old half-remembered European fairy tale. Victor Van Dort (voiced by Johnny Depp) is a se...

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